Café des Couleurs

You'll find yourself on a quiet stretch of Islingwood Road in the sort of neighbourhood where locals actually live rather than just pass through. Café des Couleurs has that effortless Continental vibe—the kind of place where people linger over newspapers and laptops without anyone making them feel rushed. The rating speaks for itself: nearly perfect scores across the board, which in Brighton usually means it's either genuinely excellent or full of people who've never been anywhere else. But the consistency suggests the former. It's the type of café that works equally well for a solo coffee break or meeting a mate, without pretension or the Instagram-bait nonsense.